1900-09

To introduce us to this time period we will be watching the first part in the BBC production: "People's Century". This first part is called "Age of Hope". This documentary will give us an insight to many of the events listed below as well as the impact of electricity, newspapers, unionism, nationalism, the women's movement, combustion engines, better medicine, colonialism, demise of autocracy, rise of marxism, immigration, advertising, flight, push for self rule amongst colonies, unionism amongst other things.

Here is the worksheet for this documentary:

1900

• Boxer Rebellion in China
• Italy's King Assassinated
• Kodak Introduces $1 Brownie Cameras

1901

• Queen Victoria dies.
• The Commonwealth of Australia is formed.
• First Nobel Prizes Awarded
• First Trans-Atlantic Radio Signal
• U.S. President McKinley Assassinated

1902

• Boer War Ends
• Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
• The Teddy Bear is introduced.

1903

• Henry Ford starts Ford Motor Company.
• The Wright brothers fly the first plane at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
• First Flight at Kitty Hawk
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• First Message to Travel Around the World
• First Silent Movie, //The Great Train Robbery//
• Plague in India

1904

• The war between Russia and Japan begins.
• Britain and France settle their international differences.
• New York City subway opens.
• The Australian Labor Party becomes the first party to gain national government.
• Ground Broken on Panama Canal
• Trans-Siberian Railway Completed

1905

• The Russian Revolution begins on “Bloody Sunday”.
• Las Vegas, Nevada is founded.
• "Bloody Sunday" - Russian Revolution of 1905
• Einstein Proposes His Theory of Relativity
• Freud Publishes His Theory of Sexuality

1906

• The Rolls-Royce company starts business.
• The Dreadnought Launched
• Finland First European Country to Give Women the Right to Vote
• Kellogg's Starts Selling Corn Flakes
• San Francisco Earthquake

1907

• 10 conventions of rules of war adopted at the Second Hague Peace Conference.
• First Electric Washing Machine
• Picasso Introduces Cubism

1908

• Ford Motor Company produces the Model T.
• Earthquake kills 150,000 in southern Italy.
• Boy Scouts founded
• Old Age Pension is introduced in Britain.
• SOS Accepted as Universal Distress Signal
• Three Year-Old Pu Yi Becomes Emperor of China
• The Tunguska Event: Huge and Mysterious Explosion in Siberia
• Turks Revolt in the Ottoman Empire

1909

• North Pole reached by American explorers.
• Plastic is invented.
• Japan's Prince Ito is Assassinated
• NAACP Is Founded